FQDN on externalhostname should be working

Make sure you did not set a option ResolveAddress to true

Btw this was broken by mistake, but only for a few hours on master

Think the issue did not reach any RC

 

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of taalj
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 20:36
To: [email protected]
Cc: Fred Beckhusen
Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Problems with teleporting in grid mode, from 
simulator instance to another instance? (Ferd)

 

Hi Fred / et all,

My Grid configuration is running behind a company firewall.  So all service we 
provide are serviced by the company firewall. We dont want to advertise our 
internal IP addresses to the outside world. So we run an internal DNS server 
with all the internal network and an external DNS server to provide services to 
users on the internet. The Split DNS concept. In this way we make our Network 
configuration more secure beside all other security measures we do on the FW of 
course. By port forwarding we redirect the traffic from Internet to the right 
ports on the Grid or Region server. When I started to configure OpenSim I first 
use FQDN (host.domain.nl) and got the same result as mentioned by Tom. After 
monitoring the network I saw package that could not be resolved. 

For the internal network users and the users from internet you want the 
configuration to be transparent without have to use different configuration. 
The only solution to use OpenSim Grid in combination with split DNS and a FW is 
to use FQDN. Then the resolving of the internal and external DNS will result 
respectively in the internal IP address for internal users (for instance an 
address like 192.168.0.1) and the FW IP address for external users (for 
instance 47.185.237.187) with forwarding of ports to the internal servers. This 
configuration works for all services we provide but not for OpenSim's 
Region.ini. This configuration will only work when you put in the FW IP address.

Somehow there is something wrong in the resolving and accepting the FQDN in the 
Region.ini

I think more and more OpenSim network will be behind FW and security system 
with split DNS and use internal un-routable IP ranges (class A: 10.x.x.x and 
class B: 192.168.x.x). Normally this configuration can work stand-alone. But 
when my FW is down the standalone grid will not work because of the external IP 
address in the Region.ini. When FQDN in the Region.ini are correctly resolved 
then internal users can work on the grid because it doesn't need the FW to 
connect to but use the internal DNS that resolve the FQDN to the internal IP 
address.

So the FQDN in the Region.ini does not lead to the right IP (in this case 
internal IP address) it will result in a TP that is not working because the 
Regio Server can not be found.

with regard,

Johan Taal

 

 

 

Fred Beckhusen schreef op 2017-05-23 20:36:

Johan Taal:  You have an interesting comment that the FQDN should not be used 
on regions.  Are you saying that the DNS system at the far end may have issues 
resolving it to an IP?  Or that the LAN user cannot get to the region because 
their DNS server is not resolving, thus occasionally leading to Thomas Ringates 
flaky tp problem?


Tom:

Your region file looks fine.    The Outbound Disallow looks correct, too.  
That's a   good catch - an exception should be made to the use http://  'rule'.

One minor point: I believe   Maxprims = 10000 is meaningless without an economy 
module. It only reports that number to a osSL function for prims can check 
parcel limits. And the viewer stops at 45,000 no matter what you type in.

I have the same Linksys, too, and it works great for me.

Fred

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